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Judge Samuel R. Blake puts four orphans into homes just in time for the holidays, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Judge Samuel R. Blake puts four orphans into homes just in time for the holidays, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 18, 1935
1935-12-18
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Babies Given New Homes," Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec 1935: A1.
Judge Blake surrounds himself with four young children that have been recently adopted standing and sitting on a table.
Just in time for Christmas, seven children from the Children's Home Finding Society of California were adopted by families in Superior Judge Blake's court.
Text from negative sleeve: 4085 - LtR- Robert Kuhn Helen Kuhn Paul Dennis Arthur Bowke Heywood Judge Sam Blake Xmas adoptions [stamped:] Dec 20 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Superior Judge Blake played Santa yesterday as he signed adoption papers for seven children. At left is Robert Kuhn, adopted four years ago. The others, adopted yesterday, are left to right: Paul Dennis, Arthur Bowke Heywood, and, standing on table, Helen Kuhn.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13099
ark:/21198/zz002hn7cw
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Holidays--California--Los Angeles
Orphans--California--Los Angeles
Adoption--California--Los Angeles
Dennis, Paul, 1935
Heywood, Arthur Bowke, 1934
Blake, Samuel R., 1895-1974
Kuhn, Helen (Helen Ruth Kuhn Summers), 1934-1993
Kuhn, Robert Marshall, b. 1929 or 1930
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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